In a 2009 cable to Washington, then US Ambassador John Melvin Jones strongly questioned President Bharrat Jagdeo’s view that enough was being done by Guyana to fight drugs and he was particularly scathing about the role of Dr Roger Luncheon in what he described as the disembowelling of the UK security reform programme.
Most of the WikiLeaks cables have featured another former US Ambassador Roland Bullen as questioning the government’s commitment in the drug fight but three years later the trend continued with Jones who served as ambassador for a brief period before ill-health set in.
Following a meeting with President Jagdeo at the Office of the President on March 19, 2009, Jones forwarded the following comment to Washington a day later in which he described four security officials nominated by Jagdeo to work with the US as the